Sellout crowds are swarming Indio, Calif., for this weekend's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which expands to three days and is expected to breakattendance records with turnout topping 180,000. "Everybody here talks about" the influential alternative music festival, says Dougie Payne of the U.K. band Travis, playing Saturday.

Travis Henry had plenty of reasons to be excited, but on the day he reached a lucrative deal with the Denver Broncos, he couldn't keep from bringing up his old team. "I was hoping and praying Tennessee would step up and keep me," Henry said. "I thought it would work out. I really did. At the start of all this I was still like, 'There's no way I'm not going to be a Tennessee Titan.' "

The Akron Zips say the next best thing to having LeBron James on the wing or controlling the ball up top is to have him in their corner. With two former high school teammates of the Cleveland Cavaliers star in the starting lineup and former Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary coach Keith Dambrot on the Akron bench, there is definitely a LeBron connection for the Zips (11-4, 2-1 Mid-American Conference).

Cecil Travis, a hard-hitting shortstop whose career was interrupted by World War II, has died at age 93. Travis died Saturday at his home outside Atlanta. Travis batted .314 for his career and had an American League-leading 218 hits in 1941 with the Washington Senators.

A storm blanketed most of Colorado under two feet of snow, bringing businesses, government and holiday shopping to a standstill, shutting down the nation's fifth-busiest airport and creating a ripple effect that disrupted air travel around the country just days before Christmas.

Glenn Myernick, an assistant coach for the U.S. soccer team and a former head coach of Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids, died Monday after suffering a heart attack last week. Myernick, 51, collapsed Thursday after his regular morning jog and never regained consciousness.

Travis Pastrana has a tough act to follow: his own. Put the 22-year-old action sports icon on a motorcycle or dirt bike, and his go-for-broke attitude rules. He has already tamed motorcycles in several motocross disciplines with death-defying stunts that have given the Summer X Games some of its best footage.